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will the Colony be benefited by Gold Mining ? PAL- 
GRAVE, writing on Dutch Guiana in 1876, expresses a 
strong opinion against any expefted good from it in that 
Colony, and his words apply with equal force to the 
British Colony. " Some say, there is hope of mines to 
be discovered among the mountain ranges in the far 
south of the Guiana territory ; and on mines what may 
not follow ? Little good, I fear. Long since the world- 
wide wisdom of " large-browed Verulam' 1 pronounced 
the sentence, ratified by a world-wide experience, that 
" the hope of mines is very uncertain, and useth to make 
the planters Iazie in other things." Mineral treasures 
are the veriest Pandora-gifts of nature to a land, and that 
Surinam may be spared the deadly present is the best 
wish her friends can make in her behalf. The territory 
is too narrow to contain at once two masters, the mine 
and the field ; one or other must speedily give way. 
The true produ6l mines of Surinam are her plantations ; 
they lie above ground, not under." 
2. — THE RECENT SEARCH FOR GOLD IN BRITISH GUIANA. 
By E. A. V. Abraham. 
OLD, gold everywhere, and not an ounce to 
spend ! Such may be the cry of many a per- 
son who has journeyed to the depths of the 
interior in the growing thirst for gold. Gold is the 
theme of every one. Each person we meet asks us 
